I'm sure this is only a recommendation but I'd like to see other peoples experiences of playing games through Steam for Linux in Linux Mint 14/15 etc as for £35 it'll be a lot of money to spend if it doesn't work and only works in Ubuntu.

xenopeek wrote:Moved here, as the gamers amongst us frequent here I noted they have a demo for download, but probably only Windows?

Cheers for moving this, didn't even realise there was a gaming forum

Yeah demo isn't for the Linux platform unfortunately.

I have about 5 games working perfectly through Wine but I'd like to play games natively through Steam if possible too though but just want to make sure they work properly before paying out all the money.

I assume that as Linux Mint is based off of Ubuntu that they'll 99% work but just want to make sure.

I've had no issues with other games on Linux Mint 14, though don't have this one. Linux Mint 14/15 uses Ubuntu 12.10/13.04 as a package base, which might have differences in packages from Ubuntu 12.04, as officially recommended by Steam. But so you may also look for if anybody is playing this game through Steam on Ubuntu 12.10/13.04 and that would make it unlikely that it wouldn't also work on Linux Mint 14/15.

xenopeek wrote:I've had no issues with other games on Linux Mint 14, though don't have this one. Linux Mint 14/15 uses Ubuntu 12.10/13.04 as a package base, which might have differences in packages from Ubuntu 12.04, as officially recommended by Steam. But so you may also look for if anybody is playing this game through Steam on Ubuntu 12.10/13.04 and that would make it unlikely that it wouldn't also work on Linux Mint 14/15.

OK cool, that's what I thought.

I'll have a look round to see if anyone has any problems playing these games on Ubuntu 12.10/13.04.

I'll wait for payday and buy the game and then probably not play it much anyway

AMD drivers in opensource are poor at 3D , AMD drivers in official are poor at 2D

no win.

Also using xfce i seem to get windows silently closing from time to time. Cinnamon isn't actually that friendly with AMD either.

no win

The games list is still poor. The games aren't optimized. The video drivers on AMD are poor

no win

on the plus side i feel it is getting better over the months with regards to steam and amd drivers but its upto the linux crew not to screw things up with updates. Hopefully weyland/mir and another big developer push by valve should see some real improvements. I cant actually expect mint to play 100% though as valve support ubuntu on 12.04 not mint.

I did buy X3: TC and AP from Egosoft a year ago for 20 €.. it can't be played without registration on Steam (on Win7).. now I did not know how to install Steam on Linux, so I did search forums and Google some stuff.. I must say, for an "no CLI" operator like me it was not easy.. So my first try was installing openSuse 12.3 on my experimental small 32 GB SSD. I did manage install Steam with "1 click install" but did corrupt somehow my system over graphics. On second try it all worked.. but it's not Linux mint right?.. So yesterday I did install Linux mint 14.1 on my Game PC: AMD 3,4 Ghz 4 cores, 8 Gig RAM, GeForce 9800 GTX, ond now somewhat bigger 64 Gig SSD. Thanks to Dedoimedo latest review, and some direct link to download the Steam file, it is working. I did play about one hour without any issues on the Game part. Steam itself close sometime without any notification, I think it's something about Adobe Flash player, although I did install him.Here is some confusion: I did buy a German language game, and on the Egosoft website they say you can use your previous saves.. but then the version they give me on Steam for Linux is in English.. so obviously they not compatible.So.. my experience is positive, assuming both the Games and Steam still in testing.. now, if only some developer from open Suse did stop developing KDE features no one really need, and go to AMD graphics department and help them with drivers..

I use Steam on Linux Mint all the time. I have almost 200 Steam games, but most don't have a Linux version, so I don't even mess with those on Linux Mint. While I have experienced a few issues, none were major and I was able to resolve them even as a total Linux noob. I think the future of Linux is a bit brighter thanks to Valve. Valve's Steambox itself will be running Linux!:)

I followed those install instructions and steam did install but when I go to run it. It acts like it is starting up but never actually pops up or fully starts where I see any graphical interface. Any Ideas? I am just starting to use Linux but am fairly familiar with computers. I am using the fglrx drivers with the updates. Don't know if that would make a difference on steam itself?